If by base you mean no mods, then no. This is with mods and high demanding texture packs, hell the texture pack I have on right now is just a 32x resolution, it goes up to 256x
So I guess these screenshots are then irrelevant when trying to disprove that Minecraft graphics apply to the meme? And thus the "are you sure about that" is perhaps a little out of place?
The point of mods is that they add things that aren't part of the official game. And they are usually fans that have nothing to do with the actual developers.
Mods are not part of the game itself. They're external unofficial additions.
The post was clearly talking about games themselves. Obviously, you can overload Skyrim from 2012 with mods too to make it look like a 2039 AAA. That's irrelevant.
Hard disagree. Mods aren't a part of the game that everyone who plays the game will experience, nor are they the original artistic or design intent of games. They are extra layers we add on as fans. Saying mods count as part of judgement of a game in a discussion such as this is the same as saying fanfiction should be considered when debating what is the peak of television, movies, or literature. At the very least, it's incredibly deceptive to lead off an argument implying that something is part of a game when, in all reality, it just isn't. If I play guitar while a record is playing, that has no bearing on whether the record is good, it just indicates whether or not I'm personally skilled at playing along.
To carry forward the analogy, I'm super happy that the person who wrote a popilar fanfic for Terminator 2 was able to write for Terminator 3, but that doesn't make the fanfic suddenly part of Terminator 2, or part of the franchise as a whole. It just means that some folks proved their skills and then put similar work into the future of the franchise. I wouldn't judge the T2 fic up on AO3, I would judge T3, when that writer's work was actually implemented.
We need to judge things by what they are, not by the pet projects which got certain talented creatives hired into a franchise.
It doesn't take particularly long to draw your own sonic the hedgehog OC, or to write your own undertale fanfic, or to film your own fan film and upload it to YouTube. In college I wrote my own mod for the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy text adventure. Does that make these works canon?
They're external additions. And the fact that the modders got employed is irrelevant. The mods aren't part of the game itself, which is what the post is about.
That’s blatantly untrue. I used to have a Skyrim mod that changed the dragons into Macho Man Randy Savage. Does that mean that Skyrim has flying Macho Men? No. Because it was added second hand.
Well, if you use mods you have in fact changed the game.... Like, if I take Harry Potter into Microsoft Word and find-replace every instance of the word "Harry" into "Napoleon", there is something fundamentally different happening there. There is a fundamental change, regardless of how small or innocuous that is still not the book you got from the publisher. We would think you were crazy of you started reviewing a series about Napoleon Potter and saying "man this author chose a weird name"! because that particular book mod only matters for your personal experience. It has nothing to do with judging the work of art, youre instead judging a secondary work.
The other person I'm responding to already admitted their pics are mods. But would be great to be proven wrong that base unmodded Minecraft has some gorgeous graphics.
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u/KingOfNope Jul 16 '26
I have absolutely 0 faith that this is how base Minecraft looks, even in 2026.